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A Thousand Pieces of You Book Review

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray is the first installment in the Firebird Trilogy. Even though I’ve already read it at the beginning of this year, I haven’t written a review yet, so here we go! Please beware of Spoilers!

A Thousand Pieces of You is about a girl called Margeruite (or just Meg), whose parents have invented something extraordinary that’s called a Firebird. The device allows you to travel to parallel worlds, but before the final test of the device, Meg’s father gets murdered by his assistant Paul and she is hell-bent on revenging his death. To do so, she and Theo have to follow Paul into the unknown parallel universes that are out there.

I really enjoyed reading A Thousand Pieces of You, but it was a bit different from what I expected. I thought it would be an action-packed read with several jumps from one universe to the next, but that wasn’t really the case. Meg is pretty quick to doubt Paul’s hand in her father’s murder and in fact we only visit 4 parallel worlds. That doesn’t mean it’s really a bad thing, just that it was an unexpected change in pace. However, there were some exciting twists and surprises and maybe it was necessary to spend so much time in one world in order to really show the Paul-Meg-connection. I have to give it to Claudia Gray though for striking a great balance with creating the different worlds. There’s a futuristic, a very imperial-like and more familiar worlds and she managed to make them believable, reasonable yet still with that element that only comes with experiencing something new.

The love triangle worked quite well for me too, although I felt a little frustrated with Paul’s hesitation after the happenings in Russia. Nonetheless, I love his connection with Meg and how it resonated in every universe they went to. I mean that’s the real kind of love – the one that survives through time and space! No matter how charming he is, Theo never stood a chance against that.

Last but not least, I fell in love with the cover right away! I’m such a sucker for pretty covers and A Thousand Pieces of You has definitely one of the most stunning ones out there! Luckily, they continued with this style and the sequel, Ten Thousand Skies Above, looks just as beautiful. I cannot wait for its release this fall (I believe it to be around November 3)!

Fazit: very romantic read that portrays a real connection/not a revenge-story

So, would you be interested in reading this book as well?

P.S.: I found this song (Your Soul by RHODES) and thought it fitted the story perfectly. Therefore, I suggested it to Claudia Gray on Twitter and she replied that she loved it and added it to her book soundtrack! No idea if she really did that, but wouldn’t that be cool?

I really enjoyed it, even though, as I mentioned in the post, it wasn’t nearly as action-packed as I thought. It’s more of a teen romance-story through different worlds hahaha but still. I really would like to continue reading the series to see what Gray has in store for the sequels.

Oh, by the way, did you know that 3 episodes of UnREAL were released yesterday? I already binged them and now I’m sad because I won’t see anything new until the end of the month … that show is brilliant.

well, it took them at least 3 days with Daredevil, and people were going insane with it. I guess they have to secure producers, writers, actors, directors… I hope it comes, netflix has a good track record

Well, the actors and other important members usually sign contracts that oblige them to participate in a sequel. So, they better hurry up and announce it soon! Today would be the third day the show is out.

The reviews of the press who only saw like the first 4 episodes were all pretty bad it’s the people who saw all of it that really got into it and could look beyond the little flaws. I just don’t want it to end before it’s really begun, you know?

Just stumbled upon your blog, and it looks awesome! I’ve always wanted to give this book a try (because I was also captivated by the cover :P) Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out Fateful by Claudia Gray, I really enjoyed that book. 🙂

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